No I wouldn't because in Russia, professors get fired if their opinions run counter to the Kremlin narrative. Like the the guy at Moscow State University who got sacked because he spoke out against the Crimea annexation.

Meanwhile at American universities you have numerous professors who are the harshest critics of American policy (cough cough MIT's Noam Chomsky)

"The Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO), a diplomatic school with ties to the foreign ministry where Zubov has worked since 2001, said it had dismissed him for criticising Russia's foreign policy."

You're a nut. A think tank does not inherently imply that it spouts us-government propaganda

And of course they work there. They've retired from their military posts and want to continue working, the government didn't order them there to write us propaganda, nor do they always agree with the us government line.